The US Empire Will Be Defeated By The US Empire: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-06-04 at 05:55:30 )

The US Empire Will Be Defeated By The US Empire: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Empire managers: President Putin invaded Ukraine!

Public: Oh no! What should we do about it?

Empire managers: Greatly increase military spending, work to weaken Russia, and censor dissenting opinions.

Public: Wait, are those not things you have always wanted to do anyway?

Empire managers: Hush.

Russian propaganda poses a much smaller threat to the western world than the various government agendas that are being rolled out under the justification of fighting Russian propaganda.

Fuel prices are soaring in part because of an economic war the United States empire willfully initiated in response to a proxy war the United States empire deliberately provoked and westerners are being trained to look at their shrinking bank accounts and yell "Damn you, Putin!"

Petrol price hits new record after EU ban on Russian oil.-Sky News (SkyNews) May 31, 2022

Only by massive amounts of propaganda would people consent to unprecedented acts of economic warfare which directly hurt them and benefit them in no way shape or form.

As the world slides closer to nuclear war it would be cool if United States of Americans could take a break from a debate about gun laws that will with absolute certainty lead nowhere and seriously discuss whether they want their government waging a rapidly escalating proxy war against Russia.

The spectrum of acceptable debate on United States foreign policy ranges from (A) war hawks who insist the United States has never done anything wrong to (B) "progressives" who say the United States is basically a good faith actor who just makes well-intentioned oopsie poopsie mistakes but should still definitely keep arming Ukraine. Position (B) is the furthest you are allowed to go away from "the United States never does anything wrong" in mainstream discourse. It includes Bernie Sanders foreign policy advisor, who smears and dismisses leftists who say the United States is acting in a malignant way in Ukraine.

No voice at all is ever given to the (in my opinion correct) position that the United States is a tyrannical regime whose immense body count is explained not by accidents but by the desire to dominate the world at any cost. The elimination of this position from the debate is by design.

Sure noble wars can be fought in theory and have been fought in practice. It is just that you have got swamp water for brains if you believe that is what the United States is doing.

It says so much about the state of western academia that it is treated as a major scandal if university professors do not unquestioningly regurgitate what their government says about international affairs. And it says so much about British state media that this article was written.-
Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) May 31, 2022

Never attribute to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by the inevitable corruption and tyranny of status quo capitalism.

Whatever ends up collapsing the United States empire is far less likely to come from Russia or China than from the United States empire itself.

A big part of the western nervousness about China revolves around the fact that we are about to be surpassed by an ancient civilization of non-white people who are indigenous to their land and have never been truly conquered and colonized by Europeans.

If you do not respect the way China has been able to pull so many of its people out of extreme poverty, and do not get why such actions would cause such unified support for their government, it is simply because you lack an adequate understanding of the anguish of extreme poverty.

I have met some cute kids in my time but nobody is as adorable as westerners who talk about Chinese people being propagandized.

The Chinese government exerts a lot of power over its population, but it also takes responsibility for the way it uses that power. The USAs rulers exert a comparable amount of power over its population, but they never take any responsibility for what they do with it.

If you have been reading the news Mr. Blinkens tweet makes no sense until you remember the United States government believes it owns the entire planet so it is allowed to do things Iran is not allowed to do.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) May 30, 2022

Can not believe Mohammed bin Salman is sullying Saudi Arabias name by meeting with the president of the United States.

Putin should try staging a few mass beheadings and dismembering a Washington Post reporter with a bone saw to get on Americas good side.

Many empire apologists are not actually defending the empire, they are just defending against the suggestion that everything they believe about their nation, their media, their government and their world, is a lie.

The most impressive feat of engineering this century has been of the "social" variety: funneling mainstream political attention into agendas which do not inconvenience the powerful in the information age where the ravages of capitalism and imperialism are right there to be seen in plain sight.

The social engineering necessary to keep politically inclined people fixated on agendas that either will not lead anywhere or which trouble the powerful in no way, even as we entered an unprecedented age of information access, is one of the most awe-inspiring human achievements in history.

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